Jun 29, 2008  
"Market Survey" salaries for local chief executives
 
You can see that Enloe has had a slew of very expensive CEOs recently...we may have another one or two within the year. The next CEO – if he or she is not selected by a board of trustees elected by the community – should be required to make the decisions that are now contracted out to highly paid consultant firms. AND, let's stop doing nation-wide searches for incompetent executive officers. There HAS to be a local men or women who can make better decisions than the crop we've had since the retirement of James Sweeney, who had remained Enloe's CEO for 28 years.

Total Compensation as paid by:
...Fremont-Rideout Health Group          
Name......................Title......Fiscal Yr....Compensation...Benefit Plans
Thomas P. Hayes..CEO.....2005/2006........$343,718..............$64,111
Bill Pace.................CFO.....2005/2006.........$217,306.............$16,361
Mike Wiltermood....COO.....2005/2006........$170,594................$7,701
Toni Anderson.......CNO.....2005/2006........$179,237..............$12,491

...Oroville Hospital      
Robert J. Wentz.....CEO.....2005/2006........$324,383.............$15,060
A. Khanchandani....CFO.....2005/2006........$258,690.............$13,834
Scott A. Chapple....COO.....2005/2006.......$255,537.............$13,615

...Enloe Medical Center
Phil Wolfe...............CEO.....2005/2006........$571,802...........$169,713
Christine Sarrico....CFO.....2005/2006........$313,801............$ 82,617
Dan Neumeister.....COO....2005/2006........$363,561...........$120,858
Janet Ellis...............CNO....2005/2006........$215,666............$ 63,801

And then 2006/2007, a very strange year...
Three (four?) CEOs for 2006/2007:
Phil Wolfe...............CEO..(was he here?!)..$228,742.............$ 11,415
Dan Neumeister.....CEO.(part of fiscal yr.).$886,007............$114,302
(Beth O'Brien-Navigant [Reported as Navigant expense?]
..........in 2006/2007 Navigant received $4.8 million for the fiscal year)
Deborah Yancer....CEO.(part of fiscal yr.).$156,699..............$40,856  
...............................................................plus $10,050 as allowance
Christine Sarrico....CFO....2006/2007.........$314,600.............$92,511
Janet Ellis....AssocCNO...2006/2007.........$429,325.............$63,900
Carol Butler.....VP-CNO....2006/2007.........$222,275.............$61,598
James Sheets.VP-EMC....2006/2007.........$239,615.............$68,161

What's good for the goose should be good for the gander (unless...you ...don't...really...care)...
Enloe's administration has really shown its true colors. For all of its talk about the Enloe family, employee engagement, Planetree, core values, and so on, the senior management has shown it does not REALLY care about its service employees. To management, they are just another section of the "market": a dime a dozen, worthy of only the LEAST they can get away with paying them. I know, I don't – and wouldn't – treat any of my children that way...the LEAST!?!

Their blather about paying the service unit an "average maximum" wage of the "six other hospitals in our market survey area" is misleading and cannot possibly be any kind of "average." Four of the six hospitals in the "market survey" pay their employees MUCH more than does Enloe, and the other two are comparable, and in some cases even more. Then add into the equation these other hospitals' MUCH better health insurance plans...Debi, Mike, Carol – How do you figure "average"? And, why should the employees in the service unit be treated as ONLY "average," especially, as Enloe is the largest health system in the state north of Sacramento?

Doctors have told us that Enloe is very top heavy with administrators, but this is...what?...ridiculous?...compared to "our market survey partners." Why should Enloe's CEO be paid around twice as much as CEOs in our "market survey"? Besides, Enloe's CEO has so many assistants to help him or her, so Enloe's CEO may even have an easier job than the others. And by that same logic, Enloe employees, then, should also be paid around twice as much as other "market survey" employees.

The service unit is only asking for what health care employees working at St. Elizabeth's in Red Bluff [yes, RED BLUFF!] now get; not what they'll be getting next year, which will be even more after they negotiate a new contract this year. The service unit employees only want – not to be rich like Enloe's executives – but to take care of their families without struggling from paycheck to paycheck. That's it!

WHAT AM I MISSING HERE?!

You can see that Enloe has had a slew of very expensive CEOs recently. And with the bad decisions still being made, we may have another one or two within the year. The next CEO – whether or not he or she is selected by a board of trustees elected by the community – should be required to make the decisions that are now contracted out to highly paid consultant firms. AND, let's stop doing nation-wide searches for incompetent executive officers. There HAS to be local men or women who can make better decisions than the crop we've had since the retirement of James Sweeney, who, by the way, had remained Enloe's CEO for 28 years.

[All figures above are based on these not-for-profit hospitals' federal tax filings, which are open to the public. Please go to the links: "Enloe Executive Pay" and "Enloe Tax Filing 990" on the home page of this website: http://www.enloemedicine.org .]